Advice For At Bat Music
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by user Dahumber
Going to the to baseball games all weekend, I started getting pretty judgemental by Sunday on some players warmup and at bat music. The banality of the players' music choices makes me think that they need some guidance for selection. So... some free advice when picking your music guys:
No Linkin Park: If a player uses Linkin Park for his warm up/at bat music, he is instantly credited as being a player that Baseball Central does not care for. Notable players who have used a Linkin Park song include Russ Adams and Aaron Rowand (Rowand digs his hole even further by stating that Linkin Park is his favorite band!). Some players tried to hide their Linkin Park love, by using one of their mashups with respectable rapper Jay-Z. We're not stupid though, we still know there's that Linkin Park band featured prominently in your at bat music A-Rod and Jonny Gomes.
Don't Be Unoriginal: A couple of years ago, like 40 players or something had Usher's "Yeah" as their at bat music. This year, it seems every other player has "Rompe" by Daddy Yankee. Advice to players, if another player has picked a song for their at bat music, don't copy. This isn't top 40 radio, we don't want to here the same song every 15 minutes.
Closers Must Have Metal: There are a tonne of metal bands out there with songs that are loud and full of testosterone. If you're a closer, you want to intimidate and get the blood flowing, so have a warm up song by a band like Slipknot, Metallica, AC/DC or Drowning Pool. Don't do as last year's Jays closer Miguel Batista did, and choose a song by Coolio.
Songs That Bring Out Your Identity: If there's something unique about you, and it can be represented by a song, then choose that song. For example, Scott Rolen uses Limp Bizkit's "Rollin'" cause it's his name, kinda, sorta. Corey Koskie uses a Rush song because both he and Rush are Canadian. Raul Mondesi actually sang in his at bat music.
Kitsch Equals Cool: Although he doesn't use it anymore, Chase Utley's selection of the Vengaboys "We Like To Party" was one of the most popular choices of at bat music ever by a Philadelphia Phillie and spawned an Utley fanclub that followed him around America called "The Vengabus". Gabe Gross similarly had a memorable at bat song when with the Jays last year, as fans were always receptive to the "Eye of the Tiger" when Gross approached the plate. Jason Giambi kind of misses the concept with his embarassingly bad choice of The NWO Wolfpac theme song as his at bat music, but for the most part, players should be applauded for picking offbeat tunes.
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Date
Tue 08/29/06, 6:47 am EST
